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9 thoughts on “Google Search Tips and Tricks”

I liked Google search tips and all the videos,short, but concise, great music too. These videos would be good to share with patrons as an introduction to searching. I think the lesson about judging online information could be valuable. I will share that news archives go back to the mid 1880s. Our staff might not realize that.

I think the lesson about judging online information could be really valuable, too! I you ever have a patron that has questions about using an iPad, GCL Learn Free also has a great one for iPads. It can be found here:http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ipadbasics

Learning how to use the -sign and quotes and the other tips on how to refine a search will be useful. Fastfacts and the DEFINE shortcut is very handy. Actually all of the videos and lessons are very useful.
Using the asterisk for a forgotten word and the image search would be handy for patrons I think. I think that it would useful for patrons to have the link to the GCF class to look at it for themselves

Learning how to use the -sign and define: are good tips. I think that sharing GCFlearn.org with patrons especially those newer to computers would be a great benefit. Most useful in the library would be the asterick to replace unknown words when a patron doesn’t remember the whole title! I’m not good at guessing the missing words!

I liked the tips on using quotes, Mmnus signs, and asterisks. This should help me narrow down my searches. I couldn’t seem to get the video tutorials to run. I am not interested in the games, though. I don’t play them on my computer or my phone. Older news articles could be useful for possible obituariries in geneology research.

Learned a lot more with this one than i thought i would, while i knew about the bookmarking i didn’t realize there were cloud based ones! The different tricks to add or eliminate words or phrases will come in handy, will definitely be using that in the library! Many of the patrons coming in to use our computers ask for help in searching things online, i will suggest the “A Google a Day” puzzles to them.

I learned that I didn’t know as much as I thought I did 😛
The Google search tip is something I have known about for a while now but just now started using it.
A tip I would share is definitely reverse google search, I also use google calculator and weather more often than I should admit. Its just easier for me!